TC+ Roundup: How to capture market share in the era of AI
Good morning! We have lots of good stuff for you this Tuesday, so let’s dig right in. Up first, we surveyed six investors who are placing bets on AI. We wanted to know how startups should begin building tools for AI; whether startup-focused AI work is defensible; and how tech
Read moreWriting Interpreter in Rust — Repl, Files, and Comments (Part 4)
Let’s implement the REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop), reorganise the project, and add file and comments supportContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreReddit is killing blockchain-based Community Points
Reddit is winding down Community Points — the blockchain-based “internet points” program designed to reward creators and developers — in favor of prioritizing rewards programs that are less difficult to scale. “Though we saw some future opportunities for Community Points, the resourcing needed was unfortunately too high to justify,” Reddit’s
Read moreTrust & Safety Tycoon lets you simulate the most agonizing job in tech
If you think you could’ve deflected Twitter’s blue check impersonation debacle, then boy do we have the game for you! Techdirt has released the very fun and not at all stressful game Trust & Safety Tycoon, in which you get to simulate running a trust & safety team at a
Read moreYouTube is launching new playback and creator-focused features
YouTube is rolling out a new set of features for better mobile-based playback, song search, and creator-friendly tools The company is making it easier for users to increase playback speed. With the new update, users can just tap and hold anywhere on the player to increase the speed to 2x,
Read moreK2 Space is building a power-rich future for space exploration based on the premise that bigger is better
Los Angeles-based K2 Space is accelerating its path to orbit with fresh venture funding, new defense contracts and a satellite architecture that will be capable of delivering staggering power levels in a single launch. The company is taking what cofounder and CEO Karan Kunjur described in a recent interview as
Read moreSwsh’s new app helps you maintain your friendships through polls and games
Ever since BeReal became popular among Gen Zers, giving them a platform to be their true selves rather than scrolling through heavily edited content, there’s been a rise in social apps that cater to this craving for authenticity and connection. Swsh is a social app founded by Gen Zers, for
Read moreAI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
Nearly a year ago, developers Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros released a hobby project called Riffusion that could generate music using not audio but images of audio. It sounds counterintuitive (no pun intended), but it worked — my colleague Devin Coldewey got the rundown here. While their approach had its
Read moreNirvana nabs $57M to make AI inroads into commercial trucking insurance
Nirvana Insurance — an insurance startup taking a new approach to insurance products for commercial fleets using artificial intelligence, telematics, internet-of-things technology and 15 billion miles of trucking data to calculate risk models — is taking on something else: new funding. The startup has raised an all-equity Series B of
Read moreThe company making it easier to turn your coffee machine into a robot
Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that).
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